Tag: #Nola
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New Orleans, LA – Tommy’s Cuisine
(From our travel archives) Where do ex-spouses of great restaurants go? Why, down the street to start their own. Tommy Andrade (nee “Irene’s”) is happily serving the public a little bit of Italian and a little bit of Creole at “Tommy’s Cuisine,” 744 Tchoupitoulas. I had noticed this place out of the corner of my […]
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Lacombe, LA – Sal & Judy’s
(From our travel archives) Sal Impastato is from Sicily – having come to a America as a young man 50 years ago, and worked in restaurants in NOLA and TX, Sal finally got to open his own place several decades ago – on a quiet country road in Lacombe, Louisiana. “People” say “Italian” in New […]
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New Orleans, LA – Pelican Club Review
(From our archives) I had some out of town visitors the other day – eschewing my dining suggestions, they wanted to go to the Pelican Club, on Exchange Place in the Quarter. The owner chefs, Richard Hughes, and Chin Ling, despite having heritages that come from tenures at other fine dining establishments, carry fusion a […]
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Metairie, LA – Bozo’s
(From our archives) Went to Bozo’s in Metairie tonight, had been meaning to get there. A bit hard to find if you don’t know exactly where it is, and very little signage when you are right on top of it. (It’s behind Borders in Metairie). It’s one of those places that locals say is the “best…” […]
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New Orleans, LA – Charlie’s Steak House
(From our archives) In a city known for great seafood, and as I have written before, I’m delighted there are so many great steakhouses here. Especially ones that have endured w/o change over the years. For the past 70 years, Charlie’s has been selling the “sizzle” right along side the best of them, but doing […]
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New Orleans, LA – Upperline
(From our archives) Proving once again that, as in most categories, reviewers don’t know shit from shinola, Tom Fitzmorris gave the Upperline “Four Stars;” the Times-Picayune lauded it with “Four Beans;” it has received the Wine Spectator’s “Award of Excellence,’ and Frommer’s called it “Best Contemporary Creole” in the city. What a load of hooey. […]
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What I Was Eating, 7 Years Ago Today
It was blistering hot, humidity off the scale. No electricity. No AC. No phone. No interwebs. No hot water. It was a few days after Katrina, and the previous descriptions would be my life for a couple months back then. The cuisine? MRE’s, (meals-ready-to-eat), courtesy of the United States Government, handed to me by prisoners […]
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Help Rebuild Hubig’s Pies – A New Orleans Legend
The Simon Hubig Pie company didn’t get its start in New Orleans, but it is where it moved from “baker” to “legend”. Opening in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood (adjacent to the French Quarter) in 1922, Hubig’s has been making up and distributing its wide line of pocket sized fried pies ever since. Surviving Katrina, Hubig’s […]
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New Orleans, LA – Antoine’s Review
(from our archives) My daughter and (then) her boyfriend were in town last week, she wanted “classic cuisine,” and although there aren’t many places I favor more than Gallatoires, for some reason (DOH!) I decided to take them to Antoine’s. The good news is, having two underage guests at dinner greatly cuts down on the […]
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Lafayette, LA – Prejean’s (Review)
(From out travel archives) Prejeans…………..Before Levi’s? I’d seen the restaurant Prejeans many times when driving up I-49 between Lafayette and Shreveport. I had never had an occasion to stop, although I had heard fairly good things about it. Local publicity calls it “award winning” and the “best Cajun cuisine in the South.” Those are pretty […]